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A New Zealand High Court judge has ruled that the January police raid on the
mansion near Auckland belonging to Kim Dotcom, founder of Megaupload, was
illegal.

Justice Helen Winkelmann also ruled unlawful the removal from New Zealand of
cloned copies of hard drives seized from the internet entrepreneur’s
computer files and their handing over to US authorities.

In her judgment, which was released today, she said that New Zealand police
should have kept them rather than handing them over to the FBI. She found
that the warrants used did not adequately describe the offences to which
they were related.